@vivavaleria@eldritch.cafe on the mammooth site. Reading mostly wlw rom-coms, with the occasional exceptions. I try to rotate languages, but it isn't really easy to find queer romance books in other languages than English. Reviews and comments usually in the same language as the book.
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36% complete! Enum & Valerie has read 11 of 30 books.
I like the characters, but the story itself is not really that good. A chosen one? The only one in the world? Looking for a magical sword? How creative. "Darker by Four", by the same author, was soo soo much better.
Jenny Lynton never planned to be an influencer. It just sort of...happened. When an unfortunate …
It's basically the most standard romance novel you can imagine, and there's not really any creative plot ideas.
When 'messy witch' Morgan Greenwood drunkenly offers to fake date her dream woman Rory Sandler …
“I'd probably end up convincing Hazel she was a tree or something.”
— This Spells Disaster by Tori Anne Martin (Page 37)
Fluttershy is not a tree, Dashie!
In this action-packed finale to the House of the Dead Duology, Wren and her friends …
"Some girls are more into swords than boys," Mercy said sagely
— Ghostsmith by Nicki Pau Preto (House of the Dead, #2) (Page 418)
okay lesbian :*
What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales?
When …
This is a good book, for what it is. However, not much of it is really unique and mindfuckingly excellent. In fact, Casey McQuiston's other books, specifically One Last Stop and I Kissed Shara Wheeler, are full of such amazing ideas and moments, that Red, White & Royal Blue just cannot keep up. They've set the bar too high.
Then again, AFAIK, Red, White & Royal Blue is McQuiston's first book, so one could see this as evidence that they only get better and better.
"Conni und Paul sind verliebt!", tönt es durch die Klasse. Conni ist sauer. Sie ist …
und erinnert mich an ICE-Fahrten meiner Kindheit, damals noch mit den Unterhaltungssystemen. Auf einem der Kanäle lief Conni und der Liebesbrief als Hörbuch in Dauerschleife :D
What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales?
When …
Alex, First Son of Masturbatory Historical Readings,
The phrase "see attached bibliography" is the single sexiest thing you have ever written to me.
— Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (Page 241)
See attached bibliography.
What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales?
When …
Or his senior year, when he got drunk and made out with Liam in his twin bed for an hour, and he didn't have a sexual crisis about it - that had to mean he was straight, right?
— Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (Page 111)
a famously totally straight thing to do
... as always with Adiba Jaigirdar's books. I like her writing style and can consume book after book of hers.
However, I just really dislike mono people's obsession with "cheating" and the entire drama and demonization about it. I don't get it, really, not at all. Yup, some guys are absolute jerks, and I love stories where the girls just team up and date each other instead. But is Zak's bigest flaw really that he had some dates with someone else?
Also, since when is app coding the top notch discipline of science? And usually spyware is an instrument of shitty dudes, not against them.
June is the star pitcher of her elite club baseball team—with an ego to match—and …
Though I didn't really like the plot structure. In romance novels, I like extensive, well-engineered falling-in-love-montages, and this one didn't really have any. Instead, it's all about the first conflict, which isn't really that deep, and could've been solved within 10 minutes of just talking to each other. Honestly, why?
June is the star pitcher of her elite club baseball team—with an ego to match—and …
I've been avoiding Snap like the plague, although I guess given how our country fared during COVID, maybe that's not really an accurate saying anymore.
— Playing for Keeps by Jennifer Dugan (Page 233)
covid acknowledged!
Why are Khanty shamans still active? What are the folklore collectives of Komi? Why are …
Women could not step into the area of question, because women may not walk over a man or his clothes. A young man explained the reason: “Since it can happen that a woman can be over a man, things will turn out badly for him.” Town houses might be a problem. Our friend, a Khanty, told us in Muzhi that he has a good apartment: “There is only one imperfection in it. A woman lives in the second floor, above me. It is a real nuisance. Everyday she treads on me. Śohma! But of course there are iron and wires and lines here [in the floor between the apartments], and — I have also something else [a magic protection]. Maybe nothing comes of that. The iron does not let through anything impure. Iron is pure.”
— Hidden rituals and public performances by Anna-Leena Siikala (Studia fennica. Folkloristica -- 19) (Page 65)
I'm sure the sex must be fun. /s
Tall and redheaded, Maeve was what men really thought they wanted.
— Dead Dead Girls by Nekesa Afia (Page 64)
I can absolutely relate to desiring tall redheads 🥰 @internet_memme@books.theunseen.city
